-------------- ROCK SOLID --------------
-------------- ROAD MAPS! --------------
When
you Want Mastery,
Stop Dogmatically Following
unMasterful Crowds
and
Start Following Road Maps
Provided by Informed
and Achieving Brothers.
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-------------- PROSCRIPTION --------------
The END IN MIND for Masonic Work
is for men to be MORE AWARE of
Political and Religious issues, themes, trends and involvements,
and NOT superficially either.
When you do your Work, you reap this as a Mixed Blessing.
When you don't do your Work, you reap this as a Mixed Curse.
What is that Work?
What ritual directs us to do!
And that ain't memorizing and repeating it back.
It's becoming Well-Informed & Masterfully Skilled
in applying ourselves toward Temporal and Spiritual matters!
This INCLUDES Politics & Religion!
.
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-------------- STRENGTHEN --------------
To Strengthen your Spiritual Grasp,
Seek to Comprehend the Differences
Between Forever and Eternity.
-------------- CHALLENGE --------------
I: What's Missing that Prevents Freemasonry
from Being what It was Intended to Be?
R: It's VALUE behind the MEMBERSHIP.
The Whole of its Membership is too focused on:
1) Putting on the PLAY,
2) Maintaining the Theater, and
3) Supporting the Prop Departments
and not enough Focused upon ...
1) Building the Actors' Hearts, Minds and Skills
toward Living Better Lives OUTSIDE the Theater.
Men do not invest in a facade very long
after they realize there's nothing backing it.
For Further Light:
Missing
Missing
-------------- PASSIONS --------------
Passions should be
Fed, Fanned & Well-Directed;
not Starved, Suffocated & Snuffed.
-------------- WILL YOU! --------------
Degrees Question Your Will
EA - Will you Prepare to Learn?
FC - Will you Learn How to Learn?
MM - Will you Learn and Teach?
-------------- RAISING --------------
FILED UNDER:
What's your priority?
I'd
rather Work with one Brother
who Seeks to Raise Himself,
than an Entire
Jurisdiction of men
who want Nothing More
than to have Others
do the
Raising for them.
-------------- TABLE LODGE --------------
FILED UNDER:
Recognizing Implications
-------------- BREAKTHROUGHS! --------------
Sometimes
Our Most Significant Breakthroughs
Occur when what we Depend upon
is
Missing or doesn't Hold Up
to Professed Standards or Vigorous Use
and we
are Forced to Grapple
with Inevitable Results.
-------------- OBSESSIONS --------------
For Further Light:
Passions!
Passions!
BEHOLD!
Meeting Minutes
and Treasurer's Reports Inform,
But they do not
Nurture
the Souls of Builders.
Starve Not Your Brothers
Who Gather in
Unity.
-------------- UNIVERSE! --------------
-------------- ENTERED! --------------
Apprentice Wisdom
You cease being an "Entered" Apprentice
ONLY when you start to do your Apprentice Work.
Don't do the Work,
be forever at the Gate.
For Further Light:
-------------- HOW IS IT? -------------- 
FILED UNDER:
A Serious Conundrum!
If you are the Lodge's
Example of Mastery,
How is it that Men
are not Fighting to Join
your Lodge in Droves?
“Wherever the poetry of myth
is interpreted as
biography, history, or science,
it is killed.”
― Joseph Campbell,
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
This occurs far too often
within the Fraternity,
and without.
-------------- LIBERTY --------------
"When men yield up
the privilege of thinking,
the last shadow of liberty
quits the horizon."
— Thomas Paine, 1775.
-------------- FRACK! --------------
As
an Organization,
we have for far too long
Allowed the Activities of
Craft Cowans and Ruffians
to Frack our Masonic Watershed.
Is it any
small wonder why
many find our offered waters distasteful?
-------------- YAR!! --------------
FILED UNDER:
YAAARRRRR!!!!!!!
Logic - The Study of Arguments
Pirates - Living ARGuments
Let me know your thoughts.
-------------- CHOICES --------------
-------------- WELL? --------------
Have you read this book?
What did you get from reading it?
What were your "take-aways"?
Would you recommend it?
If so, to whom?
Let me know your thoughts.
For Further Light:
http://www.coach.net/BuildingBuilders.htm
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-------------- MASONIC EDUCATION --------------
Setting Your Plumb!
-------------- END --------------
Be Well and Travel Light!
-- Coach Nagy ;-)
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